Scrapped? Good thing.
I've never understood why a perfectly good rail structure (which needs improving) requires such a radical change and expense. I often go up to Liverpool and Birmingham - doing so slightly faster seems quite unnecessary. Like stupid Trident.

Totally agree. No one needs to get anywhere any faster. It is fast enough. North South divide - rubbish! People can work for a city firm and work mainly from home in Hull now. HS2 was just a giant set of political testicles, thankfully now they have had the ship. Just get the bloody basics working...

I must say Sunak's decision has made him grow substantially in my admiration.

The whole system needs massive improvement. There's a ludicrous disparity between the happy clappy PR version of what it's like to travel by train and the reality. It's hideously expensive, many of the trains are grubby and over-crowded, the public address system on some of them is so poor the information can't be heard above the chattering of tourists, some of the stations are more like shopping malls than places where you can get a hot drink and a snack after 10pm, and this shambolic year-long strike has made it even worse.

(We used to be quite good at strikes! A strike is only really effective if it achieves what it wants to achieve within a very short period of time. The trains have been disrupted by industrial action for so long now that hardly anyone seems to know what it's really about! 13 months ago I had to rearrange several trips to London because there weren't any trains running. Last Saturday my local station - which is quite a large one - was literally shut!)

Dink wrote:
The whole system needs massive improvement. There's a ludicrous disparity between the happy clappy PR version of what it's like to travel by train and the reality. It's hideously expensive, many of the trains are grubby and over-crowded, the public address system on some of them is so poor the information can't be heard above the chattering of tourists, some of the stations are more like shopping malls than places where you can get a hot drink and a snack after 10pm, and this shambolic year-long strike has made it even worse.

(We used to be quite good at strikes! A strike is only really effective if it achieves what it wants to achieve within a very short period of time. The trains have been disrupted by industrial action for so long now that hardly anyone seems to know what it's really about! 13 months ago I had to rearrange several trips to London because there weren't any trains running. Last Saturday my local station - which is quite a large one - was literally shut!)

My advice to people who want to strike. Get another job or leave the country for better paid job and where there is less tax.

Why not train up the dingy divers? There's plenty of them same with those who are on the dole.